CHICAGO and PARIS, July 11, 2007 - Fimat and Trading Technologies International, Inc. (TT) announce that they have expanded their existing North American relationship and will begin marketing TT's electronic trading solutions to customers in Europe and Asia. In addition, Fimat intends to integrate TT's X_TRADER® with Fimat's Asian market connections.
Fimat will use TTNET™, TT's fully managed hosting service, to facilitate the deployment of electronic trading solutions to its customers. TTNET accelerates customer access time to international derivatives markets and increases trading platform stability through its fully redundant data centers situated close to the various exchanges.
This global agreement comes at a key time when Fimat is experiencing significant derivatives trading volume growth. Anna Pesman, Managing Director, E-trading, at Fimat said, "TT has become an integral part of our global futures execution strategy. We look forward to replicating our success with TT in the Americas throughout Europe and Asia."
Harris Brumfield, CEO of TT, commented, "We are very pleased to be expanding our long-standing relationship with Fimat to better meet the needs of their global customers. We look forward to deeper collaboration with Fimat as we work together to bring our technologies to clients in Europe and Asia."
About Société Générale Société Générale is one of the largest financial services groups in the euro-zone. The Group employs 120,000 people worldwide in three key businesses:
- Retail Banking & Financial Services: Société Générale serves more than 22,8 million individual customers worldwide.
- Global Investment Management & Services: Société Générale is one of the largest banks in the euro-zone in terms of assets under custody (EUR 2 448 billion, March 2007) and under management (EUR 441,4 billion, March 2007).
- Corporate & Investment Banking: Société Générale ranks among the leading banks worldwide in euro capital markets, derivatives and structured finance.
Société Générale is included in the five major socially-responsible investment indexes. www.socgen.com
About Fimat Fimat is part of Société Générale Group and has more than 1,900 staff in 26 market places and is a member of 46 derivatives exchanges and 20 stock exchanges worldwide. In 2006, Fimat achieved a global market share of 6.7% on major derivatives exchanges on which Fimat and its subsidiaries are a member. Fimat refers to all companies or divisions of companies owned directly or indirectly by Société Générale that include the ''Fimat'' name. Only Fimat USA, LLC. is a member of the NASD (National Association of Securities Dealers) and SIPC (Securities Investors Protection Corporation). Fimat International Banque S.A. (UK Branch) is a member of the LSE and does not deal with, or for Private Customers (as defined by the Financial Services Authority). Fimat International Banque SA (Frankfurt Branch) only conducts business with market professionals and institutional customers. Only Fimat Canada Inc. is a member of the CIPF. Not all services are available from all Fimat organizations. Consult your local office for details. www.fimat.com
About Trading Technologies
Trading Technologies (www.tradingtechnologies.com) develops high-performance trading software for derivatives professionals, including the world's premier exchanges, money-center banks, proprietary traders, securities brokers, Futures Commission Merchants (FCMs), hedge funds and other trading institutions. The company's X_TRADER® software and relate |

For Fimat E-trading: Anna Pesman Fimat 33.1.55.07.2445 anna.pesman@fimat.com
For Fimat Headquarters (Paris): Madeleine Peragut Fimat 33.1.55.07.2118 madeleine.peragut@fimat.com
FOR TT Ray Carmichael Vivid Ascent 312.346.2002 ray@vividascent.com

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